USS Atlantis Status Report
September 2006
Stardates:
- 2392.07.12
- 2392.07.14
Locations of the (crew of the) USS Atlantis:
- In Deasian space, approximately 2,7 light years away from the planet Helteka in the Andari system, in the Gamma Quadrant, at a position roughly 1000 light years from the wormhole.
Summary:
- 2392.07.12
On board the L'tari 3, the Starseeker, Atlantis officer Bukov and Starseeker crewman Wup had a conversation.
- 2392.07.14:
The battle between the Atlantis and the L'tari vessels on the one side and the pirates and Freedom Fighters on the other raged on. With the Atlantis still being kept busy by a large number of Freedom Fighters, the pirates were free to ransack the convoy and try to commandeer or destroy as many L'tari ships as they could.
After the L'tari 25, the Remember Edan, had practically been disabled and had been boarded by Freedom Fighters, Jomorr on the Nilav (L'tari 39) decided to lend a hand. Having docked the Nilav with the Edan, Jomorr led a team onto the Edan to take out the pirates. On board, he ran into Lieutenant Montgomery, and they made their way towards the Bridge. However, a viewport on the Bridge was in danger of breaking, which would result in the exposure of the entire first deck of the Edan to the vacuum of space.
Fortunately, emergency bulkheads had prevented this from happening, and the crew was safe. But only for the moment... The Freedom Fighters had taken over the engine room of the Edan. They destroyed the coolant systems and reactivated the warp core. This would result in an overload and eventually a warp core breach. The Edan would be completely destroyed, and so would the Nilav, if it remained docked to the Edan. The Freedom Fighters reasoned that if they couldn't take control of the ship, no one would -- they desperately didn't want the ship to reach Helteka.
While Jomorr and a team of Deasians headed to the engine room to see what they could do about the impending warp core overload, the rest of the Edan's crew was evacuated to the Nilav. The two Freedom Fighters that wanted to prevent this by shooting down everyone who tried to leave the Edan, were quickly incapacitated.
With 45 seconds left to go, Jomorr ordered the Nilav to undock, leaving him and his team stranded on the Edan. After he was forced to shoot down the Freedom Fighters, he managed to deactivate the warp core just in time. The overload was averted.
On board the L'tari 23, the T'Rinna, another countdown started. The pirate ship which had docked to the T'Rinna's third cargo bay was venting radiation. That did not only mean that the crew would have to receive inoculations when this wall over, but it also posed a different risk entirely: the cargo the T'Rinna was carrying was a substance called quaratum, which becomes dangerously unstable and explodes at a radiation level of 350 rads.
While Lieutenant Rofellian and most of the Deasian crew were left behind to keep the pirates at bay (even though the pirates had greater numbers), Commander Velden, Ensign Andrusia and a Deasian crewmember called Wana rushed to the emergency control room to disconnect the entire cargo bay three module from the T'Rinna. It involved switching gears, turning wheels and pulling levers, but they eventually succeeded -- again, just in time. The entire cargo bay three module, together with the pirate ship, exploded not much later, only scratching the T'Rinna instead of destroying the ship.
On board the Jatmey, Kadar's ship, the Doctor pondered the decisions she had made during recent events. The attempted mutiny by Doctor Zeiss and the commandeering of her ship by pirates were hard to forget. On top of that, she and her crew were far from certain that they were going to survive the next few minutes...
The Atlantis, meanwhile, was facing problems of her own. After having scared away the pirate ships, the Freedom Fighters seemed no match for the mighty Atlantis... But what their ships lacked in strength, their Captains made up for in determination. Captain Waar, the Freedom Fighter captain of the 'Valour', set a collision course with the Atlantis. Intending to ram the Federation starship, she believed that would take out the Atlantis and enable the rest of the Freedom Fighters to go after the convoy.
She hadn't taken into account the Atlantis' tractor beam, however. The beam kept the Valour at bay, but Waar was pushing her ship's engines to their limits, putting quite a strain on the tractor beam emitters. What was more, Waar activated some sort of auto-destruct sequence on her ship. The anti-matter explosion would damage the Atlantis severely enough on its own, but the Valour also had shipments of tricobalt in its cargo bays. The resulting explosion would be enormous... and it might very well take out the Atlantis.
With only two minutes to go, Captain Torn ordered the Atlantis to push the Valour into the minefield, away from the L'tari convoy. Slowly but surely, the Valour and the Atlantis entered the minefield, their movement hampered by the overloading engines of the Valour, which was trying to push them back. When the Valour's impulse engines finally shut down, the Atlantis was able to push the ship further into the nebula, even within range of the installation which generated the subspace distortion field...
But by that time, there were only seconds left. The Valour's anti-matter containment field failed (as planned by Waar), and the ship exploded, igniting the tricobalt and lighting the area in a fiery burst of bright, destructive flames...
CAST:
PC: [ 10 ]
CO Captain Alfred Torn, Played by David Susman
FO Commander Paul Velden, Played by Ben Versteegt
ACEO Lt. Jg Leo Montgomery, Played by Bram Peeters
ACONN Ensign Frank Ryan, played by Sam Walker
AOPS Ensign Michael Kurtog Gambit, played by Larry Ostwald
ASTC Ensign Petr Bukov, Played by Mike Sheinin
COUNS Lieutenant Circe Pilkington, Played by Chantal Sellers
CMO Ensign Morgan Kadar, Played by Morgan Kadar
OPS Lt. Jg Kyler Fletcher, Played by Alonzo Soban
STC Lieutenant Vladek Rofellian, Played by Patrick Buidin
SPC [ 14 ]:
Ambassador Diana Von Klinkerhoffen, Played by Rob Versteegt
AOPS Ensign Andrusia, Played by Martin Miller
Counsellor Ensign Arek Vox, Played by Adrian Rodd
CSO Lt. Jg Jomorr, Played by Rob Versteegt
Diplomatic attaché Demetrius, Played by David Susman
Emergency Medical Hologram, EMH, Mark 1, Played by Rob Versteegt
Glitch, Played by Ben Versteegt
Helmsman Lieutenant Ran Singh, Played by Adrian Rodd
Holly, Emergency Engineering hologram, EEH Mark 1. Played by Adrian Rodd
Holographical Bartender Bart, Played by Rob Versteegt
Medical Officer Leonard Zimmerman, Played by David Susman
Operation Officer Ensign Zoë Vil, Played by Bram Peeters
Science Officer Ensign Whas Ouder, Played by David Susman
Transporter Chief Ensign Nasatha Sh'lin, Played by Ben Versteegt
This translates into the following list of players:
David Susman: Active
PC:
- CO Captain Alfred Torn
SPCs:
- Diplomatic attaché Demetrius
- Medical Officer Leonard Zimmerman
- Science Officer Ensign Whas Ouder
Ben Versteegt: Active
PC:
- FO Commander Paul Velden
SPCs:
- Glitch
- Transporter Chief Ensign Nasatha Sh'lin
Morgan Kadar: Active
PC:
- CMO Ensign Morgan Kadar
Bram Peeters: Active
PC:
- ACEO Lt. Jg Leo Montgomery
SPCs:
- Operation Officer Ensign Zoë Vil
Larry Ostwald: Active
PC:
- AOPS Ensign Michael Kurtog Gambit
Patrick Buidin: Inactive
PC:
- STC Lieutenant Vladek Rofellian
Mike Sheinin: Inactive
PC:
- ASTC Ensign Petr Bukov
Chantal Sellers: Inactive (LOA)
PC:
- COUNS Lieutenant Circe Pilkington
Alonzo Soban: Inactive
PC:
- OPS Lt.jg Kyler Fletcher
Sam Walker: New
PC:
- ACONN Ensign Frank Ryan
Adrian Rodd: Active
SPCs:
- Counsellor Ensign Arek Vox
- Helmsman Lieutenant Ran Singh
- Holly, Emergency Engineering hologram, EEH Mark 1
Rob Versteegt: Active
SPCs:
- Ambassador Diana Von Klinkerhoffen
- CSO Lt. Jg Jomorr
- Emergency Medical Hologram, EMH, Mark 1
- Holographical Bartender Bart
Martin Miller: Active
SPCs:
- AOPS Ensign Andrusia
Number of PC players: 10
Number of Active PC players: 5
PC Activity ratio: 50 % (last month: 50 %)
Number of SPC players: 6
Number of SPC-only players: 3
Number of Active SPC-only players: 3
SPC-only activity ratio: 100 % (last month: 100 %)
Total number of players: 13
Total number of Active players: 8
Total activity ratio: 61,5 % (last month: 60 %)
A player is listed as Inactive when he or she has not posted for two weeks or more at the end of the month. This may be due to a LOA (announced or not). Be advised that if a player has not posted for two weeks or more at the end of the month, but has posted in the beginning of the next month, he or she is still listed as inactive in this status report.
VACANCIES [ 6 ] :
CONN
ACONN
CEO*
ACEO
ACMO
ACSO
* = Will be filled soon.
Promotions:
None this month.
Departures:
- 2O/CONN Lieutenant Una Andersson, Played by Hanna Brunefeldt (Personal reasons)
- ACMO Ensign Andre Thomas, Played by Andre Thomas (Inactivity)
- ACSO Ensign Erik Nylén, played by Rickardh Karlsson (Inactivity)
Goodbye to all who left, and we hope you enjoyed your time here.
New Arrivals:
- ACONN Ensign Frank Ryan, played by Sam Walker. Welcome aboard, Sam!
Posting Stats:
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Player | PC |S/NPC|Total| Last post date
----------------------+----+-----+-----+-----------------------
David Susman | 2 | 1 | 3 | September 20
Ben Versteegt | 2 | 12 | 14 | September 30
Hanna Brunefeldt | 0 | | 0 | August 21 Left
Chantal Sellers | 0 | | 0 | July 13 LOA
Alonzo Soban | 1 | | 1 | September 6
Patrick Buidin | 0 | | 0 | August 24
Morgan Kadar | 3 | 4 | 7 | September 30
Andre Thomas | 0 | | 0 | June 13 Left
Mike Sheinin | 0 | | 0 | July 31
Bram Peeters | 5 | 5 | 10 | September 27
Larry Ostwald | 2 | | 2 | September 15
Sam Walker | 0 | | 0 | New
Rickardh Karlsson | 0 | | 0 | Left
Martin Miller | | 1 | 1 | September 21
Rob Versteegt | | 10 | 10 | September 30
Adrian Rodd | | 5 | 5 | September 28
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Joint Posts | |
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Total | 15 | 38 | 53 | Last month: 41
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Legend: LOA = Player has been on LOA this month and has not yet returned.
LOA* = Player has been on LOA this month but has returned.
Notes: Revisions were not counted, for obvious reasons. Joint posts were counted as a single post in the grand total.
Top 3 posters for September 2006:
1) Ben Versteegt, 14 posts
2) Bram Peeters & Rob Versteegt, 10 posts
3) Morgan Kadar, 7 posts
53 posts this month. Not bad, considering three people left and some others were inactive. But what I like about this month is not the quantity of the posts, but the quality. Many posts were a thrill to read. They were filled with action, moral dilemma's, countdowns, tension and other great story elements. Keep it up, everyone!
Quote of the Month:
Another month, another quote. The choice for this month wasn't hard. It's from an hilarious Bart post by Rob Versteegt:
Lieutenant: "I'm sure you holograms know about. . . hanky-panky as well. . ."
Bartender Bart: [blinks] "Hanky. . . panky?"
-- ST Frontier Fleet, USS Atlantis, Stardate 2392.07.14 |
